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Gresham Police Chief Sells retires for second time in less than a year
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Gresham police chief quits, again, after damning investigative report
Updated Feb 19, 2021;
Posted Feb 19, 2021
The chief said she was not quitting voluntarily this time, but rather because of the city’s handling of an outside report critical of her leadership. Brent Wojahn/Oregonian file photoLC- The Oregonian
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Gresham Police Chief Robin Sells resigned again Friday, the second time in eight months, over the city’s handling of an explosive personnel report that was critical of her.
In a long, written statement, Sells said she quit in reaction to the “city’s choice to release a deeply flawed report without affording me due process.” The report examined complaints filed both by Sells and Corey Falls, who worked for Sells in the police department before moving on to Gresham City Hall, that they’d been treated unfairly.
Gresham, Portland education leaders reflect on the institutional inequities we ve discovered this past year.
If the snowfall seen Friday Feb. 12 had occurred in any other academic year, it s likely most metro area schools would be closed for a snow day. After 11 months of remote learning brought on suddenly by the COVID-19 pandemic, for many students in the Portland area it was just another school day.
The ability to teach and learn remotely is one of a handful of bright spots and takeaways from the past year, touched on by Oregon education and early childhood learning leaders during a Portland City Club conversation Friday, Feb. 12. The conversation, dubbed State of Education, featured host Toya Fick, Oregon s executive director of Stand For Children. Fick was joined by Portland Public Schools Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero, Gresham Barlow School District Superintendent Katrise Perera and Miriam Calderon, early learning system director for the state of Oregon.
down their eyes just not quite knowing what was going on. you know many of the students and teachers from covering them. what are you hearing from them? what am i hearing? just absolute heartbreak. this is a huge high school but they call this a very tight-knit community and they never thought it could happen here and it s just a very heartbreaking day for this community. there was a lockdown last year during a homecoming dance. is that correct? that s correct. what was that about? that was in october. it happened around 10:00 and doors were locked for safety as police looked for a possible armed man near the high school. they don t believe that was a student. but a call had come in about a suspicious person with a weapon in to 911 and so they had to lockdown for a homecoming dance. lisa anderson of the gresham outlook, thank you. police worked to secure the
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